Sentences with phrase «much of his political career»

During much of his political career, Martins also served as vice president and general counsel at J&A Concrete Corp., a Bohemia - based construction company started by his father.

There were frequent reminders that de Blasio's interests for much of his political career have been national — de Blasio only decided to run for City Council at age 39, after running Hillary Clinton's campaign for U.S. Senate.

Not exact matches

Let no one be in any doubt: the responsibility for the breakdown of Germany's coalition talks lies with Angela Merkel, and her failure has brought the end of her political career much closer.

Entirely too many careers, too much money, and too much of money's evil twin, political clout, are now involved: The discrimination state will not wither away, so we all had best get used to it.

Anyone who's spent time with the Premier since the early years of his political career knows he is no fan of the Commission, ever - closer - union and the Directives that order much of British life.

So you can bounce between parties as much as you want in the United States until you decide to run for office... than you better be prepared to part with the party only on pain of death or (worse of an elected official) future political career.

For much of his business career, Romney did not take public, political stances.

Hikind, of course, has had a much more successful political career, winning elections fairly routinely every two years.

Bharara's ouster does seem tailor - made to launch a political career — getting fired by President Donald Trump alone could be a badge of honor for liberal votes, then throw in the fact that his firing might have been a gift to Rupert Murdoch and Fox News — but his sudden super-nova status might not shake up the board all that much.

He was born in Jarrow, into a family with links across the generations to the river and its historic industry and, after 30 years as a shipyard worker himself, he spent much of his subsequent political career unsuccessfully fighting to defend its continued existence.

The Republican attacks are part of the reason Hochul is here Monday, stumping at a nursing home in the town where she began her political career and talking about the much - loved entitlement program.

This is both the broad metaphor at the heart of the president's own political career and a nice summation of what the film accomplishes - by holding these characters up to be judged as human beings rather than saints, it has pricked the balloon of myth that surrounds much of what transpired.

One story tells of two college students who have decided to put their comfortable career track on hold in order to give their support to the war effort in Afghanistan, much to their political science professor's dismay.

In 1999, when Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York, (Giuliani started his political career as Associate Attorney General under President Reagan, infamous for his ignorance and inaction during the AIDS epidemic, and his en masse firing of union air traffic controllers on strike in 1981) Giuliani sued the Brooklyn Museum for opening the much - hyped exhibit Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, which included the work of then - emerging British artists such as Chris Ofili and Damien Hirst.

[ANDY REVKIN responds: I daresay I've brought Dr. Hansen's research and conclusions as much or more publicity over the course of his career than any other science writer, starting with a 6,000 - word cover story on global warming in Discover Magazine in 1988 that opened with his Senate testimony and continuing through the period when political appointees at NASA tried to stop him from speaking out.

Suzuki's much - lauded career is about spin, selective use of information, exploitation of fear especially with children, personal attacks on those who dare to disagree, and an underlying political agenda.

It is not entirely clear to us (yet) how much the choking off of the EPA websites is the result of direct pressure from CEQ via high - level EPA political appointees and how much might instead be due to anticipatory self - censorship and self - protective tendencies of career federal managers, but the results are evident.

That incentive alignment may not be the case for a government - funded climate researcher whose career benefits from promulgating the shared political program of heavy intervention against fossil fuels and would be very much hurt by not going along with that.